The Regional Health
Administration (ARS) of Algarve announced that, from today, Monday, 13,
dentists were placed at the service of the population in the three
Groupings of Health Centers in the region. The
placement of dental professionals is part of the investment of the
National Health Service in the area of oral health that, by the end of
2017, will integrate the specialty in 59 Health Centers nationwide,
stressed the institution in a statement.
In an initial phase, the ARS / Algarve has three dentists and their dental assistants at the Barlavento Health Centers Group (ACES) in Portimão; in ACES Central, in Faro; and ACES Sotavento in Tavira. But the number of professionals in the area and the number of locations may grow during the year 2018, admits ARS.
In an initial phase, the ARS / Algarve has three dentists and their dental assistants at the Barlavento Health Centers Group (ACES) in Portimão; in ACES Central, in Faro; and ACES Sotavento in Tavira. But the number of professionals in the area and the number of locations may grow during the year 2018, admits ARS.
In a meeting with the
board of directors of ARS / Algarve, the regional coordinator of the
Algarve Oral Health Program, executive directors and clinical directors
of ACES, dentists and dental assistants, the guidelines were drawn up on
how these new services work, which have the capacity to
cover, at an early stage, users with risk factors and other situations
that the family doctor considers to be clinically justified.
The referral of the users to the consultations of dental medicine is done through the family doctor. It thus increases the responsiveness of the National Health Service (NHS) in the Algarve to universal and equitable needs, taking into account the most vulnerable groups, says ARS / Algarve.
The referral of the users to the consultations of dental medicine is done through the family doctor. It thus increases the responsiveness of the National Health Service (NHS) in the Algarve to universal and equitable needs, taking into account the most vulnerable groups, says ARS / Algarve.
The institution
stresses that there will be progressive access to oral health care in
primary health care to guarantee access for people with chronic
conditions to oral health care and to evaluate the oral health situation
of people with the various pathologies defined and followed in the SNS.
To date, if there is a need to perform apical x-rays, dentists can do so because the cabinets are equipped with intraoral x-ray equipment. The reinforcement of primary health care in the region brings another novelty: from the beginning of December, the Algarve SNS provides for the first time in the ACES, a direct digital orthopantomograph for the execution of panoramic radiological images (digital orthopantomography) - previously possible only in the private health universe - which are available in the ARS / Algarve image filesystem.
To date, if there is a need to perform apical x-rays, dentists can do so because the cabinets are equipped with intraoral x-ray equipment. The reinforcement of primary health care in the region brings another novelty: from the beginning of December, the Algarve SNS provides for the first time in the ACES, a direct digital orthopantomograph for the execution of panoramic radiological images (digital orthopantomography) - previously possible only in the private health universe - which are available in the ARS / Algarve image filesystem.
Consultations in
the primary health care of the three ACES of the ARS / Algarve will be
able to carry out the following interventions: dental medicine
consultation, urgent consultation, definitive direct restoration in
composite resin and cement, permanent and deciduous tooth extraction and
supra - periodontal maintenance treatment, gingivoplasty and gingivectomy, drainage and sealing of fissures.
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